I think the anti-GMO crowd is probably over-the-top in their protests...but

quote:All, basically rooted in fear of the "new".

It's more of a fear of the old. See Irish potato famine:

quote:a disproportionate share of the potatoes grown in Ireland were a single variety, the Irish Lumper.[24] The expansion of the economy between 1760 and 1815 saw the potato make inroads in the diet of the people and became a staple food all the year round for farmers.[25] The large dependency on this single crop, and the lack of genetic variability between the plants that made up the crop in Ireland, were two of the reasons why the emergence of Phytophthora infestans had such devastating effects in Ireland

Probably not. We've been screwing around with food for thousands upon thousands of years. Just about every type of food you can imagine has gotten bigger over time (corn in particular) due to selective breeding and genetic altercations. Ever seen what a wild banana looks like? Its completely different. Basically there's no real such thing as organic food these days. Your digestive track probably wouldn't be able to handle food from 20,000 years ago.

All you have to do is google Monsanto bullying small farmers over seeds. You can't save seeds every year without repaying them for their patents. That's even if their non-gmo plants are contaminated with gmo pollens which alter the conventional crops.

It doesn't take much to deduce that the companies that produce GMO's are only interested in their bottom line, same as every profit driven company, thus "feeding the world" isn't really high on their agenda. Now if "feeding the world" meant more profits, which it very well could, then that would be in their best interest. But we all know they aren't going to ship this food to starving people without a price. And there isn't anything wrong with that IMO, that is the nature of capitalism.

But don't sit here and tell me that GMO's are imperative to feeding the world and ending starvation, because that isn't their goal. Could it eventually lead to that? Yes, but society in general would need to undergo a huge shift in ideals for that to happen.